18. sister:i.e., sister-in-law. Oliver is going along with his brother Orlando's game of addressing the young man, Ganymede, as though he were Orlando's beloved, Rosalind. And we in the audience know that Ganymede is really really Rosalind.

19-20. O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf!: "Ganymede" makes fun of Orlando by pretending to be the overly emotional "Rosalind" who thinks that it is his heart that has been wounded and is now covered with a bandage ("scarf").

19O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see 20thee wear thy heart in a scarf!

30rams and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, 31and overcame': for your brother and my sister no 32sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but 33they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, 34no sooner sighed but they asked one another the 35reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought

36. degrees: Rosalind puns on another meaning of "degrees": "steps." 37. pair of stairs: flight of stairs. 38. incontinent . . . incontinent: immediately, without waiting a moment . . . unchaste.39-40. wrath: rage. they will together:i.e., they insist on being together.40. clubs: Clubs were the weapons of choice for breaking up street fights.41. bid: invite.

36the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a 37pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb 38incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: 39they are in the very wrath of love and they will 40together; clubs cannot part them.

ORLANDO41They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid 42the duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing 43it is to look into happiness through another man's44eyes! By so much the more shall I tomorrow be at45the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall46think my brother happy in having what he wishes47for.

53that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit: I54speak not this that you should bear a good opinion

55. insomuch: inasmuch as. 56-58. neither . . . grace me:i.e., also, I am only saying this so that you will believe I can do you good, not to impress you.

55of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are;56neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in57some little measure draw a belief from you, to do58yourself good and not to grace me. Believe then, if59you please, that I can do strange things: I have,

66. inconvenient: unfitting, inappropriate. I think Ganymede is teasing Orlando a bit; of course he wants to see the real Rosalind.68. human as she is and without any danger:i.e., in her own person, not as a spirit who might endanger Orlando's soul. 69. in sober meanings: seriously, without any joking.

66not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient67to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human68as she is and without any danger.

70-71. By . . . magician: I swear by my life, which I hold dear, even though I endanger it by saying openly that I practice magic. 72. best array: finest clothes. bid your friends: invite your well-wishers [to your wedding].

70By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I71say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your72best array: bid your friends; for if you will be73married tomorrow, you shall, and to Rosalind,74if you will.

78. To show the letter that I writ to you: to reveal the contents of the letter I wrote to you. Phebe told Silvius that her letter to "Ganymede" was going to be bitter, but that was a lie, and "Ganymede" revealed the lie by reading the letter aloud to Silvius.79. it is my study: I think of everything I can.80. despiteful and ungentle: cruel and rude.